Modern, unequal societies are hugely stressful because they violate people's hard-wired sense of fairness.
He said he would miss his friend "terribly" and recalled his innate sense of fairness and intellect.
IR It seems strange how much conditioning can change the world's sense of fairness, including, I'm afraid, The Economist's.
Biology provides some of the general primate psychology that we have, like pro-social tendencies, sense of fairness, following rules.
Nor, according to the third of this convenient trilogy of papers, is a sense of fairness rooted in culture.
The usual interpretation of this is that human beings are indeed imbued with a very strong sense of fairness.
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Appeals should rather be made to their self-interest, sense of fairness, even to old-fashioned virtues like mercy and honour.
For example, that sense of fairness leads us humans, often enough, to punish those who would take advantage of us.
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The idea of debt depends on a common sense of fairness: if you borrow and don't pay back, justice is violated.
Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.
"There needs to be a sense of fairness, and these best-off people in society have got to contribute more, " he said.
As in the other experiments, the sellers had a much greater sense of fairness when they dealt with the high-status buyers.
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It is hard to avoid the view that the Committee has sometimes allowed preconceived judgments to cloud its objectivity and sense of fairness.
Americans want safety, stability and simplicity in retirement, as well as a sense of fairness all of which are in short supply on Wall Street.
But the Italian showed a sense of fairness in recalling the former England captain, once he had demonstrated his commitment to the team's cause.
We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
Besides showing that a sense of fairness has a genetic basis, this result also raises a question: why should the sense of what is fair be so variable?
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Scientists offer fresh evidence that chimpanzees, like humans, have an innate sense of fairness but other researchers take issue with the findings.
Humans do indeed have a very strong sense of fairness.
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Robin Marsh, UK secretary general of the Federation, spoke of the "innate sense of fairness and decency" that informed Lord King's decisions and his support for persecuted groups and disadvantaged minorities.
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Unfortunately, when you stop and think about what insurance companies are all about (maximum profits) it is easy to realize nothing that they are doing is out of a sense of fairness.
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To ensure a sense of fairness in the execution of this plan, the NCAA needs to be willing to help subsidize as much as 100% of these added costs for schools in need.
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If we allow our safety net to be weakened, or lose a sense of fairness in our tax code, then we can expect more anger and frustration from citizens across the political spectrum.
To find out if chimpanzees share this sense of fairness, Keith Jensen and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, designed a way for chimps to play the ultimatum game.
You believed that instead of huge inequalities and an economy that's built on a bubble, we could restore a sense of fairness to our economy and build a new foundation for lasting growth and prosperity.
We are, after all, dealing with a society made up of human beings and one of the things that behavioural economics is reminding us of is that humans have a very strong sense of fairness.
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As an antidote to this picture, he offers plenty of evidence of apparently selfless sacrifice, unforced sympathy, co-operation and even a keen sense of fairness in our closest animal relatives, who evolved to reap the benefits of mutual aid.
Yet, having spoken to Levine and others (including an experienced litigator) who did not want to be quoted in any way to do the sensitive nature of the case, I still think something about it violates my sense of fairness.
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We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
While it violates my sense of fairness, having now spoken with several lawyers, including an experienced antitrust lawyer, let me fill you in on what was really going on: Judge Cote was trying to encourage Apple to settle, as have the five publishers sued along with it in the Spring of last year.
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